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RHONE Red Wine
RED RHONE 2 - Cote Rôtie and Hermitage
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DOMAINE
ETIENNE GUIGAL
According to Robert Parker this is
one of the best domaine's in all of France, and certainly the TOP
source for excellent Cote Rôtie and
St. Joseph.
Their top single vineyard cuvees are world famous and have prices to
match! (La Mouline, La Turque and La Landonne), but their Brune & Blonde
CR is a wonderful 'value for money' wine that we can highly recommend.
We will in future also stock some of their top cuvees for those of you
who 'want the best'! |
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75cl
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Cote Rôtie
Brune & Blonde
RP -
The 2003 Cote Rôtie Brune et
Blonde is probably the finest cuvee of regular Cote Rôtie that Guigal
has produced since 1999 or 1991. Stunningly rich, it offers a beautiful,
sweet nose of cassis, mocha, espresso, bacon fat, black olives, and
underbrush. Some smoked meat notes also make an appearance in this rich,
lush, opulent wine.
This is a beauty. |
2003 |
£34.00 |
RP93
Now - 2018 |
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36 |
75cl
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Cote Rôtie
Brune & Blonde
RP -
The 2001 Cote Rôtie Brune et
Blonde exhibits an herb and tapenade-scented nose with hints of smoke,
bacon fat, red currants, raspberries, and figs. It is a delicious,
medium-bodied 2001 to drink over the next 5-7 years. |
2001 |
£32.00 |
RP88
Now - 2012 |
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32 |
75cl
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Cote Rôtie
Brune & Blonde
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The 1999 Cote Rôtie Brune et
Blonde (25,000 cases) includes 5% Viognier in the blend. It is a
fragrant, soft, medium-bodied effort revealing notes of violets,
liquorice, and jammy cherry as well as currant fruit presented in a
sweet, medium to full-bodied style. Seductive and lush, it is impossible
to resist. |
1999 |
£35.00 |
RP89
Now - 2015TOP Vintage! |
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12 |
75cl
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Cote Rôtie
Chateau d'Ampuis
RP -
A wine worth filling up the
trunk of the car with is the 2003 Cote Rôtie Chateau d’Ampuis. This is
staggering wine and as profound as most of the single vineyard Cote
Rôtie are in some other vintages. The wine has a deep ruby/purple colour
and an extraordinary nose of smoky bacon fat and roasted meats,
tapenade, black raspberry, cherry, and cassis. The intense aromatics are
followed by equally thick, unctuous flavours with huge body, a
voluptuous texture, and yet wonderful freshness, purity, and length.
This is an amazing wine made from a remarkable blend of some of the best
parcels in Cote Rôtie – La Garde, La Clos, Grande Plantee, Pommiere,
Pavillon Rouge, and Le Moulin. This wine should evolve for 20 or more
years, but will never be undrinkable. |
2003 |
£84.00 |
RP96
Now - 2027Top Vintage for Guigal! |
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11 |
75cl
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Cote Rôtie
Chateau d'Ampuis
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The extraordinary 1998 Cote
Rôtie Chateau d'Ampuis is more structured, powerful, and concentrated
than the 1997. My ratings for the component parts ranged from a low of
90-92 for La Grande Plantee, to a high of 94-96 for La Pommiere and
Pavillon Rouge. All revealed huge colours, earthy, smoky noses with
bacon fat and black currants, and various degrees of tannin. This is
unquestionably a vintage for patient connoisseurs as it requires
cellaring. It is dense, chewy, and muscular. |
1998 |
£79.00 |
RP95
2009-28 |
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48 |
75cl
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St. Joseph
Vignes de Hospices
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The 2005 St.-Joseph Vignes
de l’Hospice boasts a dense purple hue, huge tannin, but massive
concentration and intensity. Minerality, floral notes, and an
impression of a blockbuster Syrah walking on a tightrope are present in
this brilliantly executed and etched wine. |
2005 |
£62.00 |
RP95
2012-32 |
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6 |
75cl
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St. Joseph
Vignes de Hospices
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One of the finest
St.-Josephs I have ever tasted is Guigal’s 2003 St.-Joseph Vignes des
Hospices. Fashioned from 30-year old vines planted in the highest
vineyard on the Tournon hillside overlooking the town of Tain
l’Hermitage, this inky/purple-tinged beauty boasts beautiful aromas of
creosote, smoke, scorched earth, crème de cassis, figs, liquorice, and
truffles. Layered, opulent, and full-bodied, with a finish that lasts
over a minute, this awesome St.-Joseph should age effortlessly for 20+
years. |
2003 |
£66.00 |
RP96
Now - 2026 |
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DOMAINE
RENÉ ROSTAING
An excellent producer with top
vineyard holdings, using traditional wine making methods coupled with
modern technology.
His wines are very classic, expressive pure and long-lived (especially
his top cuvees).
We highly recommend this domaine! |
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177 |
75cl
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Cote Rôtie
Cuvee Classique
ST -Bright
purple. Fresh, mineral-driven red berry aromas are clear and spicy.
Snappy red fruit flavours display striking freshness and purity, with a
very light tannic bite on the back.
This has excellent verve. |
2005 |
£39.00 |
ST92
2009-22 |
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24 |
75cl
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Cote Rôtie
La Landonne
RP -
Revealing more structure and
definition than the regular bottling, the 2003 Cote Rôtie La Landonne
offers more scorched earth, camphor, blackberry, and roasted meat
characteristics. Last year this cuvee displayed no acidity, but that is
not the case from bottle (perhaps the use of 50% stems helped). Rostaing
admits that analytically, there is practically no acid in this wine, so
it will age on its extraordinary extract and richness. |
2003 |
£107.00 |
RP97
2006-21 |
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36 |
75cl
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Cote Rôtie
La Landonne
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Good deep red. Reticent nose
offers roasted raspberry, brown spices, wood smoke, pepper and tapenade.
Powerful and rather closed; much less approachable today than the basic
bottling, showing more oak and a strong acid spine. Pure and linear.
Best today on the long, subtle, perfumed aftertaste. |
2001 |
£49.00 |
ST92
2009-25 |
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18 |
75cl
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Cote Rôtie
Cote Blonde
ST -
Deep ruby. Initially more
closed than the Landonne but quickly opened to show deep, rich mulberry
and kirsch aromas, with intense, exotic floral and spice accents. Really
expands in the mouth, offering explosive, highly concentrated dark berry
flavours. Fine, dusty tannins give shape and structure to this wine,
while juicy acidity extends the finish. This is more elegant and
graceful today than the Landonne, as well as richer and even longer.
A
standout in a great vintage. |
2005 |
£128.00 |
ST97
2011-24 |
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12 |
75cl
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Cote Rôtie
Cote Blonde
ST -
Explosive, intensely
perfumed bouquet encompasses smoky red and dark berries, cherry, fresh
and dried flowers and an intriguing minerality. Deep in concentrated
blackberry and raspberry preserve flavours but also boasts superb
freshness and clarity. The bright, tangy finish doesn't want to quit,
throwing off notes of floral pastille, graphite, tobacco and sweet red
and dark berries. The wine's tannins are overwhelmed by sweet fruit. |
2004 |
£95.00 |
ST94
Now-2020 |
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24 |
75cl
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Cote Rôtie
Cote Blonde
ST - Deep red-ruby. Blackberry, truffle,
bacon fat, coffee and black pepper on the wild
nose; a bit less extravagant and more
sophisticated today than the Landonne. Dense and
large-scaled but more reserved than the
Landonne, despite its generosity of texture.
Finishes with huge but very fine tannins and
great persistence. Today, this conveys a
stronger impression of terroir than Rostaing's
other 2003s. Again, Rostaing wondered out loud
if this and the Landonne are "typical"
Cote-Roties, but they are undeniably
impressive. "In 1999, we were shocked by the
ripeness of our fruit, but we're now getting
used to the warmer climate," Rostaing admitted.
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2003 |
£165.00 |
ST97
2008-22 |
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60 |
75cl
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Cote Rôtie
Cote Blonde
ST -
Good deep red-ruby.
Explosive, wonderfully sweet aromas of red berries, bacon fat and wood
smoke. Fatter, sweeter and more opulent than the Landonne, but at the
same time finer-grained and even more intensely flavoured. Today this
comes across as less peppery and more fruit-driven. Very rich and very
long on the end. |
2001 |
£89.00 |
ST93
Now - 2024 |
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DOMAINE CHAPOUTIER
One of the top Rhone estates with a
very large selection of wines -all are organically made with great
attention to detail and quality. |
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12 |
75cl |
Hermitage la Sizeranne Rouge
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Full red. Roasted
redcurrant, plum and a whiff of animal fur on the very ripe nose.
Lush
and generous in the mouth, with impressive concentration. Finishes with
very suave tannins for the vintage, a port-like suggestion of surmaturité and sweet oak. |
1997 |
£31.00 |
ST91
Now - 2015 |
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DOMAINE P. JABOULET
A very good domaine making full
bodied and tasty wines.
Their Hermitage 'La Chapelle' is is one of the best value top Hermitage
wines to be had, when compared to prices of other top growers. |
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35 |
75cl |
Crozes-Hermitage
Domaine Thalabert
Wine Spectator-
Open-knit for the
vintage, with juicy briar, raspberry and black cherry flavours, backed
by a slightly tangy mineral note on the finish. |
2005 |
£19.00 |
WS89
Now -2014 |
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42 |
75cl |
Hermitage La Chapelle
Wine Spectator-
Very juicy, with
nice drive to the black currant and boysenberry fruit, which is pushed
by dark plum sauce, black liquorice and sweet toast notes.
The long,
fleshy finish shows the polished grip of the vintage |
2005 |
£98.00 |
WS93
2010-28 |
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11 |
150cl |
Hermitage La Chapelle
As above but Magnums! |
2005 |
£198.00 |
WS93
2010-28 |
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36 |
75cl |
Hermitage
La Petite Chapelle
Wine Spectator-
Sleek, with a
pure, racy beam of raspberry and mixed red and black cherry fruit,
stitched together with hints of mineral, grilled herb and a dash of
sweet spice.
Has a fresh, racy finish. |
2005 |
£47.00 |
WS91
Now - 2020 |
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42 |
75cl |
Hermitage La Chapelle
RP-
The 1997 Hermitage La
Chapelle is a monumental wine. The harvest was completed on October 14,
with some cuvees achieving 14.5% natural alcohol (the alcohol level in
the final blend is 13.5%). The wine looks impressive, with a viscosity
and unctuous richness. There is amazing fat and chewiness, as well as
spectacular aromatics of over-ripe black currants and blackberries
intermingled with barbeque spices, soy, and jammy black fruits. The
tannin seems lost in the wine's full-bodied, silky-textured,
voluptuously rich, staggeringly concentrated style. The mid-palate
explodes with sweetness, glycerine, and extract. The finish lasts for
40+ seconds. |
1997 |
£47.00 |
RP95
Now - 2030 |
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6 |
75cl |
Hermitage La Chapelle
RP-
The 1996 Hermitage La
Chapelle is immensely impressive. The acidity is high. The colour is
black/purple, and the wine is extremely concentrated, but unevolved and
impossible to penetrate. It could turn out like the 1983 and never
develop as well as its early promise suggests. Nevertheless, it is a
massive effort with extraordinary concentration, |
1996 |
£45.00 |
RP92
2012-25 |
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36 |
75cl |
St. Joseph Grande Pompee
Wine Spectator -
Primal, with a
beam of raspberry fruit and toast that gives way to a slightly crisp
finish. There's not a lot of range, but this is solid enough. |
2005 |
£14.00 |
WS87
Now - 2011 |
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